PHILIP'S BLOG: Tertiary education – expense or investment?

Tertiary education may not be a silver bullet in today's employment climate, but seeing it as an expense rather than an investment is myopic. All student loans have done is individualised and 'expensified' the cost of education, making young people liabilities on the Government ledger — rather than assets — and ignoring education as one of many ways to grow the country's talent and future economy.